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boutons_deux
03-05-2012, 04:35 PM
Shocking report says water bills to triple across USA

http://www.naturalnews.com/z035151_water_bills_rates_rising.html




Global Water Scarcity: Can We Solve It?

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/05/437518/global-water-scarcity-can-we-solve-it/
Halberto
03-06-2012, 01:06 AM
blame the oil companies!
Wild Cobra
03-06-2012, 04:05 AM
That's what happens when the population outgrows natural resources.
coyotes_geek
03-06-2012, 01:48 PM
"Like many of the roads, bridges, and other public assets on which the country relies, most of our buried drinking water infrastructure was built 50 or more years ago, in the post-World War II era of rapid demographic change and economic growth. In some older urban areas, many water mains have been in the ground for a century or longer," the report said.

"Given its age, it comes as no surprise that a large proportion of US water infrastructure is approaching, or has already reached, the end of its useful life."

We've been underinvesting in our infrastructure for decades now. The time to pay the piper is coming. Sucks to be us.
coyotes_geek
03-06-2012, 01:57 PM
Of course the Stimulus Bill would have been a good opportunity to do something about this.

$$$ in the stimulus bill to help municipalities and water utilities update their aging/deteriorating infrastructure: $6 billion.

Easily should have been double or triple that.
RandomGuy
03-06-2012, 05:09 PM
Of course the Stimulus Bill would have been a good opportunity to do something about this.

$$$ in the stimulus bill to help municipalities and water utilities update their aging/deteriorating infrastructure: $6 billion.

Easily should have been double or triple that.

Shoot, just stopping the leaks where massive amounts of water are wasted would probably give us another decade or so, to my understanding.

Older cities like Boston and New York have some creaky-ass infrastructure.
CosmicCowboy
03-06-2012, 05:56 PM
Shoot, just stopping the leaks where massive amounts of water are wasted would probably give us another decade or so, to my understanding.

Older cities like Boston and New York have some creaky-ass infrastructure.

Yeah, Texas is not in bad shape relatively speaking. A lot of our big building booms in infrastructure were after we started using PVC pipe for supply lines...those big eastern cities with their high density, rotting steel pipes, and union labor are well and truly screwed.